ICC Announces Americas Cricket Combine

America would have a new cricket team. The International cricket council board recently announced that a cricket combine would be conducted in Indianapolis in USA during the month of September so that a representative team of America can be selected for the ICC.The new team would play for West indies Cricket Council Board in the Nagico Super 50 tournament in January 2016 where the best performing player would be selected to play in the Caribbean premier league.

The cricket combine will consist of two phases where the Phase 1 would be an open trial. Now how can one take part in the trial? All eligible players in America can apply online so that they can have an opportunity to be selected to attend the trial phase. The trial phase would be conducted in the World Sports Park in Indianapolis from 18 to 21 September

The players who will perform well in phase 1 will be invited for Phase 2 of the combine that would be held from 24th to 27th September .The ICC American representative team would be selected after the phase 2.Some players can automatically attend phase 2.This is a very good initiative taken by the ICC cricket board. Some talented Americans would be selected for the Caribbean league as well.USA as well as Canada has numerous talented players and this initiative would be good for selecting the players.

WICB is taking good initiatives to assist the development of cricket in the region of America seriously and they are diligently supporting the cause of cricket. The Nagico Super50 and the CPL are important tournaments and ICC is trying to select some of the best players from USA as well.ICC’s head of Global development Tim Anderson was very happy and expressed joy at conducting the new event. “It’s exciting that the ICC, in cooperation with the WICB, is able to provide this opportunity to the best cricketers in the Americas region,” he said.

The applications for selection of American players would be closing on Friday the 17th July. More information on the same can be from the ICC website. The ICC Americas region is a part of the development program that focuses on increasing the boundaries of cricket with the help of new entries from USA as well as the neighboring countries like Canada. It also aims at improving the relation between ICC’s 95 Associate and Affiliate Member countries.

The cricket combine is definitely destined to do well and would give exposure to numerous players in America. Both America as well as ICC is excited on the new venture .This is termed as the pathway where the best players of the region would be selected for playing in the best International cricket tournament

The players who meet the ICC eligibility criteria to play for affiliate and associate members within the America region would be selected in the Open trial as well regional teams. The eligibility criteria would be available in the website www.iccamericas.com/cricketcombine